Tigers baseball at Bellarine

The Bacchus Marsh Tigers travelled to Bellarine to take on the Bears for Round 4 of Division 3 in the Geelong Baseball Association Winter season.

The Tigers got off to a good solid start putting two runs on the board while the Bears followed up with a single run in the bottom of the first innings. The Tigers came close to scoring again in the fifth with some daring base running by Michael Corbett but an excellent play by the Bears left field, Jai Harrison Roberts who made a strong, accurate throw to home plate saw the runner tagged out without scoring.

The pitchers for the first seven innings; Chris Dunn (Bears) and Shiori Hoshino (Tigers) had great back up with their fielders making good, routine outs which limited the scoring until the seventh when Tigers consolidated their lead with an additional two runs.

The game moved into the eighth innings and each team made pitching changes, Cheyne McLean came on for the Bears which suited the Tigers batters who poured on an additional five runs to gain the upper hand. Thomas Shaw was the closing pitcher for the Tigers and closed out the Bears making the final result a resounding 9 to 1 in Tigers favour.

Shiori Hoshino was the winning pitcher with 7 innings pitched, a total of 89 pitches, 11 strikeouts and only giving up 4 walks and 1 run.

This Saturday the BM Tigers will be playing East Belmont Saints at home at 1pm.